> NAIL IN THE FENCE
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> >   > Make sure you read all the way down to the last sentence.
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> >   > (Most importantly the last sentence)
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> >   > There once was a little boy who had a bad
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> >   > temper. His Father gave him a bag of nails
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> >   > and told him that every time he lost his
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> >   > temper, he must hammer a nail into the back
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> >   > of the fence. The first day the boy had
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> >   > driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next
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> >   > few weeks, as he learned to control his
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> >   > anger, the number of nails hammered daily
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> >   > gradually dwindled down. He discovered
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> >   > it was easier to hold his temper than to
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> >   > drive those nails into the fence.
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> >   > Finally the day came when the boy didn’t
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> >   > lose his temper at all. He told his father
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> >   > about it and the father suggested that the
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> >   > boy now pull out one nail for each day that
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> >   > he was able to hold his temper.
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> >   > The days passed and the young boy was finally
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> >   > able to tell his father that all the nails
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> >   > were gone. The father took his son by the
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> >   > hand and led him to the fence. He said, “You
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> >   > have done well, my son, but look at the
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> >   > holes in the fence. The fence will never be
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> >   > the same. When you say things in anger,
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> >   > they leave a scar just like this one. You
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> >   > can put a knife in a man and draw it out.
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> >   > It won’t matter how many times you say I’m
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> >   > sorry, the wound is still there. ” A verbal
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> >   > wound is as bad as a physical one.
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> >   > Friends are very rare jewels, indeed. They
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> >   > make you smile and encourage you to succeed.
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> >   > They lend an ear, they share words of praise
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> >   > and they always want to open their hearts to us.”
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> >   > Please forgive me if I have ever left a hole.